On May 15, Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker opened up the Web page of The New York Times and read the following line:
“Newsweek apologized yesterday for printing a small item on May 9 about reported desecration of the Koran by American guards at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, an item linked to riots in Pakistan and Afghanistan Read More
There are a number of reasons why the Democratic Party, the dominant political organization in New York City, is having such a hard time winning Mayoral elections these days. The primary reason, of course, is the competence of the two Republicans-Rudolph Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg-who broke the Democratic near-monopoly on City Hall.
Another reason has Read More
Excerpts from a review of the new movie Kung Fu Hustle from kids-in-mind.com, a movie Web site for parents.
KUNG FU HUSTLE
Highly stylized martial arts comedy taking place in an anachronistic version of 1930′s Shanghai: The dominant criminal gang invades a slum, but has a very hard time subduing its residents when some Read More
New York City residents use about 1.3 billion gallons of water a day, and most of us have no idea that it’s only dumb luck that keeps the water flowing into our homes. In fact, the city’s water system is balanced on the brink of disaster: If either of the two water tunnels which currently Read More
There’s a time and a place for everything and 5:30 p.m. outside H. and M. on 34th and Broadway the day before Thanksgiving is neither the right time nor place for a fistfight.
Or so the four plainclothes NYPD officers would have me believe as they cuff me and stuff me into a cruiser.
She’s come a long way, baby. In the past four years, Hillary Rodham Clinton has managed to dramatically change the way New Yorkers and millions of Americans think of her. And if her fund-raising success is any guide, there are a lot of people in this country who want to see more-much more-of Mrs. Clinton Read More
In speedy fashion, the princes of the Catholic Church have chosen the German-born Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to fill the shoes of John Paul II. The contrast is startling: As a young man, John Paul defied the Nazi occupiers of his native Poland, choosing to go underground rather than collaborate by his silence. But the young Read More
Many non-Jews are invited to a Passover meal, or Seder. ( Seder means “order” in Hebrew.) The array of ritual foods and ancient prayers can be baffling for a newcomer. Also, the question arises: “What does one talk about at a Seder?” As a service to our readers, we supply a series of surefire conversation-starters. Read More
Wednesday 13th
Lessons learned this week! April is turning out to be the cruelest for some of our favorite famous folk (as death claimed holy men, literary men and princes without discretion), the Shake Shack is as delicious as promised but the lines make you equally hungry, and thanks to The Times, we wish to Read More
It should be obvious by now that rancher-President George W. Bush would like nothing more than to see New York City drift off into the Atlantic Ocean. His irrational disdain for the nation’s most important city is measured not by his words, which often are sympathetic, but by his actions, which are cruel, shortsighted and Read More
